I read these Articles in the early hours of this morning and decided to comment.
http://www.fin24.com/Companies/TravelAndLeisure/Crash-wont-halt-space-tourism-20141102
http://www.fin24.com/Tech/Opinion/Glimpse-into-the-future-20141031
Arthur, [that’s the name of one author] I have to say this tongue in cheek because if people find out I am actually serious they will laugh in my face.
I look at World events in periods of 50 years and have found the best time lines to be the 50 years starting on 10 and 60; therefore the previous 50 was from 1960 to the last day of 2009; The current one started the first day of 2010.
By the start of the one on Wednesday 1st January 2110 the World will be a desolate place, hopefully starting to recover but I doubt it, from the excesses of the past 50 years, the one that we are in now [with decay setting in rapidly] and the one coming along in 2060 that will destroy the last vestiges of what is currently considered to be so great and wonderful.
We will start 2110 with barter trade in a world that will have maybe two million people; there will be no Internet. Those given the task will have to start from scratch and food will be first on the agenda for many decades.
What is the main cause of my silly view, you may ask. Very simply, our addiction to the wonders of the computer will be our downfall. Hi tech has developed to the extreme where we don’t need brains any longer; we have stopped using what we have left of the grey matter and of course, long lost our ability to think.
We are now being run by a generation of ignoramuses.
Tags: African Internet, information-technology, rip van winkel, satire, science
Jaksonian Philosophy 
November 3, 2014 at 4:23 am |
Some spelling errors and omissions have been fixed and/or amended in the published Post as of now.
November 3, 2014 at 5:48 am |
Fair amount of truth in that prediction, I fear, Ike.
November 3, 2014 at 6:50 am |
Thanks Nebraska
I can’t see how much longer we can stay on the course of self-destruction before we get what we want so badly.
November 3, 2014 at 2:21 pm
I see much the same, sadly.
November 3, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Thanks NEO. Perhaps we are getting old but I am not sorry about that. I sure don’t want to live in the thirties of this century.
November 3, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Little desire myself, Ike, still worth trying to fix what we can. Some good kids coming along, as well.
November 3, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Yeah NEO
We must love our children and hope for their sake.
November 3, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Indeed so, Ike. A the poet said:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
November 3, 2014 at 5:48 pm
Thanks once again, NEO. The poem has done my heart a lot of good. I am not nearly as good as you to find them but I do read them; like most of us I tried my hand at it some thirty years ago and thought well of myself but there are a few that I shall never forget. We need to look inside and talk to Him who created us and keep us going.
November 3, 2014 at 6:19 pm
Indeed we do, my friend.
November 4, 2014 at 12:58 am
Thanks Nebraska. I enjoy using that name; it goes so well with you and in your Blog picture. Go well, my friend.
November 4, 2014 at 1:06 am
Thanks, Ike, I like it as well. Take care, my friend
November 4, 2014 at 1:17 am
I am pleased you do, Nebraska. Go well wherever you do.
November 3, 2014 at 8:30 am |
Wrong we are being run by a supremley clever elite supported by politicians and leaders. The aim of this top- shelf is to have the cream of all there is. This situation is not new its thousands of years old and it is the way of all large civilisations.
Look at Safa Motesharrei’s mathmatical analysis of the breakdown of civilisation.
November 3, 2014 at 8:43 am |
Hi Magnocrat
Welcome to my humble abode. I love the satirical in things and it seems to me that’s what you had in mind here. I approve of that; in fact I always refer to them as the 1% of 1% of the population. That would include the few in the local Article of which I included the link.
What we actually have here politically is the best example of a modern oligarchy but it’s held out to the World as Democracy.
Thanks for visiting; you are welcome anytime you wish.
November 3, 2014 at 8:51 am
Hi Magnocrat
I have just Googled that reference of Safa and will read some more. It looks interesting.
November 3, 2014 at 10:23 pm |
“We are now being run by a generation of ignoramuses.” Amen Sir Ike.
November 4, 2014 at 1:02 am |
Welcome to my home and thank you JP. You must have a close look at the construction that collapsed; measure it by the size of the houses and the vehicles right in front of it.
November 3, 2014 at 10:29 pm |
Reblogged this on et cetera* and commented:
“We are now being run by a generation of ignoramuses.”
Ike just hit the nail on the head, with a 20 lb. sledge.
November 4, 2014 at 1:05 am |
Thanks for the Re-Blog JP. I shall pop in and have a look.